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Video about a truly remarkable 12-year old artistic genius. Watch this one! http://youtube.com/watch?v=TZSGK5lvYMY&mode=related&search=

I discovered this singer today and wanted to share it with my FRiends that like good music. Wow. Paolo is from Scotland and has a chillingly soulful voice - and he's only 20 years old. Enjoy!

Zhang entered one of China's top universities before he was 13 years old. Let's see: when I was 13, I was still waiting to go through puberty. Zhang replaced Lee Kai-fu, (I have written quite a few blogs about Lee) as director of Microsoft's research center in Beijing in 2000. One thing that Zhang could do that no one else could before him was convince the Chinese government to award post-doctoral degrees to a foreign company for the first time. Zhang seems to be especially skilled at dealing with Chinese officials and his ability to cut through red tape to...

Student Recites 8,784 Digits of Pi Wed Mar 15, 10:02 PM ET SALEM, Va. - A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi — the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal — likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world. ADVERTISEMENT Gaurav Rajav, 15, had hoped to recite 10,790 digits and set a new record in the United States and North America. But he remembered enough to potentially place third in national and North American Pi recitation and 12th in the world. His ranking should be verified by the Pi World Ranking List within two months. "I'm kind...

Prodigy Communications, one of the oldest brands on the Internet and among Net service providers, is up for sale by its parent SBC Communications, now known as AT&T. The Prodigy brand name and associated 66 registered trademarks in 52 countries are the intellectual property being sold, according to a document and proposal seen by CNET News.com. AT&T has contracted Ocean Tomo, an intellectual capital equity firm based in Chicago, to solicit and accept bids starting this month. The sale is expected to be closed by the end of March 2006. "We're exploring the market for the brand and anticipate there...

This brilliant young arist was recently featured in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine which my family receives, but since they do not make articles available on the web, I went searching about her. The only articles I could find were from 2004 (see Akiane Kramarik: Dream Child), so I thought I'd just redirect you to her website. Her biography is already fascinating. Born underwater at home, on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, to the atheistic stay-at-home Lithuanian homemaker mother, and an American father, culinary arts instructor, chef and dietary manager. • Lived in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Idaho, experiencing...

Akiane Kramarik: Dream ChildThis 10-year-old prodigy, who says God shows her what to paint, is using her gift to help the needy.By Mary Berryhill Akiane Kramarik is a young prodigy from Sandpoint, Idaho, who has been drawing and painting lifelike artwork since she was 4. Akiane (pronounced ah-KEE-ah-nah) says she first met God when she was 3. And now she's hoping to use her amazing gift to help feed needy children around the world.When young Akiane's special gift was discovered, not much time passed before the humble 10-year-old was featured o­n Oprah, CNN, and other national media programs. Akiane began...

(CBS) There is a composer studying at New York’s renowned Juilliard School who some say is the greatest talent to come along in 200 years. He’s written five full-length symphonies, and he’s only 12 years old. His name is Jay Greenberg, although he likes the nickname "Bluejay" because, he says, blue jays are small and make a lot of noise. Greenberg says music just fills his head and he has to write it down to get it out. What’s going on in Bluejay’s head? Correspondent Scott Pelley spoke with him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay wrote a piece, "The Storm," in just a...

Bill Wingell for The New York Times Marla Olmstead with her painting "Ornaments." She has sold 24 paintings and put $40,000 away in savings. The artist has both her admirers and her critics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - The hottest new abstract artist in town has reason to celebrate. This summer, she went from selling her work in a coffee shop to having her own gallery show. After a local newspaper's feature on her, about 2,000 people came for opening night - everyone from serious collectors to the artist's preschool teacher. She earned more money than she could comprehend. The...

City girl wows state Democrats STATE COLLEGE — Democratic State Committee members gathered Saturday at Penn State University to flesh out the state’s delegation to the party’s national convention in Boston. But the surprise main attraction was a speech by Cara Rosenthal, a 13-year-old girl from Williamsport who charmed the more than 250 adults with a combination of poise, spunk and humor as she proclaimed her allegiance to the party, criticized the Bush administration’s record on education and spoke out for women’s rights. ‘‘There may have been founding fathers, but there were also founding mothers,’’ Cara said in one of...

A sportswear giant is signing up children as young as three years old in a bid to market its products and capture the next generation of stars. Reebok has offered to pay the school fees of three year old Mark Walker, an amazing basketball talent.Walker can score baskets from 10 meters out using a full sized basketball with adult sized hoops.He is the most worrying example of a growing trend among sports companies such as Nike and Reebok.Freddy Adu, a 14 year old soccer player in the United States, has singed a contract with nike thought to be worth 1...

HOME > THE OTHER SIDE > STORY Get News by Email Print This Article Email This Article 12-year-old starts medical school May 02, 2003 HE hasn't even hit his teenage years yet, but Sho Timothy Yano is on course to fulfill his professional ambitions by the time he's 18 and perhaps make history in the process. With one degree already under his belt, the 12-year-old has just won a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Chicago, where he will combine his medical studies with a Ph.D., the university said yesterday. Sho is thought to be one of the...